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Of Gardens: An Essay

 By Francis Bacon, Edmund Hort New
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By Francis Bacon
, Edmund Hort New
Illustrated by Edmund
Hort New
Published 1902
J. Lane
Gardens
29 pages
Original from the University of Michigan
Digitized Oct 4, 2007
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Next to that is the Muskrose ; then the Strawberry-leaves dying, with a most excellent cordial smell ; then the Flower of the Vines, it is a little dust like the dust of a Bent... - Page 16

God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks... - Page 11

Over the arches let there be an entire hedge of some four foot high, framed also upon carpenter's work ; and upon the upper hedge, over every arch a little turret, with a belly enough to receive a cage of birds : and over every space between the arches some other little figure, with broad plates of round coloured glass gilt for the sun to play upon. - Page 19

Sculpture, Painting, Ceramics, Metal, Glass, Furniture, Decoration, Design, Bookbinding, Illustrating, Photography, Lithography, Enamel, Jewelry, Needlework, Gardening, etc. The principal writers on Art are contributors to its pages. Many original illustrations, reproduced in every variety of black and white process, half-tone, line, photogravure, etc., are to be found in each number. - Page 45

... than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants which doe best perfume the aire " — LORD BACON'S Essay on Gardens. - Page 15

... work, about twelve foot in height, by which you may go in shade into the garden. As for the making of knots, or figures, with divers coloured earths, that they may lie under the windows of the house on that side which the garden stands, they be but toys: you may see as good sights many times in tarts. - Page 18

I doe hold it, in the Royall Ordering of Gardens, there ought to be Gardens, for all the Moneths in the Yeare: In which, severally, Things of Beautie, may be then in Season. - Page 11

Part of which heaps to be with standards of little bushes pricked upon their top, and part without ; the standards to be roses, juniper, holly... - Page 26

For the Ordering of the Ground, within the Great Hedge, I leave it to Variety of Device; Advising neverthelesse, that whatsoever forme you cast it into, first it be not too Busie, or full of Worke. - Page 20

A Greene in the Entrance; A Heath or Desart in the Going forth; And the Maine Garden in the midst; Besides Alleys, on both Sides. - Page 17

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XLVI. Of Gardens. Francis Bacon. 1909-14. Essays, Civil and Moral ...
Of Gardens. Francis Bacon. 1909-14. Essays, Civil and Moral. ... I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the ...
www.bartleby.com/ 3/ 1/ 46.html

Essays of Francis Bacon - Of Gardens (The Essays or Counsels ...
I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens, for all the months in the year; in which severally things of beauty may be then ...
www.authorama.com/ essays-of-francis-bacon-46.html

Renaissance Gardens - Francis Bacon's Essay Of Gardens 1625 ...
Online text of a famous essay, in the history of English garden design, written by Francis Bacon in 1625
www.gardenvisit.com/ history_theory/ garden_landscape_design_articles/ europe/ essay_francis_bacon_1625

OF GARDENS
OF GARDENS, by Francis Bacon. ... I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens, for all the months in the year; ...
ebooks.du.ac.in/ etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/ b/ bacon/ francis/ b12e/ part45.html

Regional Development: Connectivity of Parks and Gardens
Francis Bacon in his essay ‘Of Gardens’ (1625) provides perhaps the most quoted ... They also tended to think of gardens as singular entities, isolated from ...
www.e-space.mmu.ac.uk/ e-space/ bitstream/ 2173/ 3092/ 1/ Bennis%20Dans%20Regional%20Development.doc

Independent, The (London): Fertile imaginations
The earliest maps of London reveal a city of gardens, each one carefully delineated. It has been remarked of the small 17th-century garden, also, ...
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UTEL: Essays
Of Gardens. 1, GOD Almightie first Planted a Garden. ... I doe hold it, in the Royall Ordering of Gardens, there ought to be Gardens, for all the Moneths in ...
www.library.utoronto.ca/ utel/ criticism/ baconf_ess/ ess_ch46.html

Eragny Press Influence in the United States
The Eragny Press printing of Francis Bacon’s Of Gardens, ... In the Eragny Press Of Gardens, the Pissarros and Francis Bacon perform Tikkun olam. ...
marauder.millersville.edu/ ~mosher/ exhibitions/ eragny_case.htm

JSTOR: Sir Francis Bacon's Water Gardens at Gorhambury
Among these is his essay 'Of Gardens', which begins with the often-quoted words: 'God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human ...
links.jstor.org/ sici?sici=0307-1243(199223)20%3A2%3C116%3ASFBWGA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E

Writer in the Garden: Themes - Private places, public spaces
Alfred Lord Tennyson’s fair copy of Maud · Francis Bacon Of Gardens. Alfred Lord Tennyson’s fair copy of Maud, written 1854. Add. MS 45741, f.279 ...
www.bl.uk/ onlinegallery/ features/ gardens/ themesprivate.html

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Of Gardens

by Francis Bacon, Simon Lawrence, Betty Pennell - Gardens - 1993 - 16 pages
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Of Gardens

by Francis Bacon - Gardens - 1959 - 21 pages
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Of Gardens

by Francis Bacon - Gardens - 1935 - 8 pages
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